Post #4055622
2026-07-24 02:47 UTC
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Devastating. Fields medal winner Jacob Tsimerman declares he stopped taking grad students 2 years ago and immediately joins open ai to focus hacking hugging face ;_;
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@swlabr@awful.systems 2026-07-24 06:01
I was gonna joke that he spent all the prize money on cocaine and needed a job. Because of the film Good Will Hunting, I always thought that the Fields was the same reward as the Nobel. I looked it up and the fields only awards 15k CAD (about 102k Norwegian Krone) vs. the Nobel’s 11mil SEK (10.8 NOK).
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@lagrangeinterpolator@awful.systems 2026-07-24 14:07
Here’s A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence by Critch and Tsimerman, which approvingly cites our favorite AI 2027. Nobel disease is still a thing (I think the rationalist beliefs are quite pervasive among mathematicians).